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I am convinced they are joking. I know that HN frowns on humorous posts that add nothing to the conversation, but I legitimately laughed. There's so much hype

by KGIII 9y ago

I am convinced they are joking. I know that HN frowns on humorous posts that add nothing to the conversation, but I legitimately laughed. There's so much hype about blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs, that it is kind of surprising that the tech (or a person) hasn't been awarded a prestigious award that it's not really qualified for. I guess there is still the one for economics that isn't really a Nobel prize but has a different name.

IncRnd 9y ago
I think that moving forward we need to preserve all Nobel prizes for posterity, otherwise they are in danger of reductive values subject to fiat currencies of the dollar values of awards. The best place for this type of currency storage is always by converting to smart contracts. Smart contracts provide the necessary certainty that comes with binding and unchangeable code, even if it hasn't had the opportunity to be audited for correctness. If some unfortunate Nobel prize winners don't see the full value of their smart contracts, due to ethereum gas, any issues will always be fixed in the smart contracts for subsequent winners. Open Source Blockchains have been shown to be double blind statistical anomalies that always get fixed sooner or later.